At the September 26, 1931, NHL meeting, the requests of the Philadelphia Quakers and the Ottawa Senators to suspend their franchises for the season were granted.[1] The eight remaining teams divided up the Ottawa and Philadelphia players, whose contracts were leased from Ottawa and Philadelphia. (The Quakers would not return) The players went to other teams, but their contracts were intended to revert to the original clubs. Ottawa received an offer of $300,000 for the team, on the condition that it could move to Chicago and play in the new Chicago Stadium but the owners of the Chicago Blackhawks refused to allow the new team within their territory.[2] The Detroit Falcons were bankrupt and went into receivership.

Meanwhile, the American Hockey Association, which had become the American Hockey League (AHL) in 1930–31 and declared itself a major league, was condemned as an outlaw league by NHL president Frank Calder. Among the reasons Calder cited for his actions was that the AHL had put a franchise in Chicago, which had an NHL franchise, and a franchise in Buffalo where the NHL had a minor league affiliate. The AHL proposed as Stanley Cup challenge, and the Stanley Cup trustees ordered the NHL to play off. However, the Buffalo team collapsed and Calder entered into negotiations to merge the Chicago Shamrocks, owned by James Norris, with the Detroit Falcons, now bankrupt. The AHL signed an agreement with the NHL to become its minor league affiliate.

Howie Morenz was as effective as ever for the Montreal Canadiens and won the Hart Trophy again, as the Habs once again finished first. The Rangers finished first in the American Division. But it was to be the year of Toronto, with the NHL's leading scorer Harvey "Busher" Jackson leading the way. The Maple Leaf Gardens was built and opened in November 1931, a remarkable achievement. At one point, the whole project was near collapse, but when Conn Smythe and Frank Selke convinced the unions to accept stock in the Gardens as partial payment of wages, Maple Leaf Gardens was built. Chicago spoiled the home opener with a 2–1 win and it was the Black Hawks Mush March who scored the Gardens first goal.

The Montreal Maroons were very interested in obtaining Eddie Shore from Boston. James Strachan, president of the Maroons, said he was willing to pay up to $40,000 for his contract. However, there was no deal. As Boston had fallen to the bottom of the league, it was doubtful that the Bruins would part with their ace defenceman.

The Montreal Canadiens were favored for a third straight Cup, but injuries to Pit Lepine and Aurel Joliat dashed that dream. With Joliat half throttle and Lepine out, the Canadiens were no match for the speedy Rangers. Toronto broke through Chuck Gardiner's goaltending to polish Chicago off, then they beat the Montreal Maroons.

The Toronto Maple Leafs swept the best-of-five series against the New York Rangers three games to none. The first two games were to be played in New York City but because the circus was in town, the second game was played in Boston. The third and final game was played in Toronto. It was called the "Tennis Series", because the Leafs scored 6 goals in each game. The Rangers scored 4 times in their own building, twice at Boston Garden, and four more in Toronto.

Howie Morenz won the Hart Trophy for the second time in his career. Joe Primeau won the Lady Byng, the one time he would win the trophy in his career. Chuck Gardiner won the Vezina, the first of two times he would win the trophy.

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National Hockey League
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Headquartered in New York City, the NHL is considered to be the premier professional ice hockey league in the world, and one of the major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada. The Stanley Cup, the oldest professional sports trophy in North America, is awarded annually to the playoff champion at the end of each season. At its inception, the NHL had four teams—all in Canada, the league expanded to the United States in 1924, when the Boston Bruins joined, and has since consisted of American and Canadian teams. After a labour-management dispute that led to the cancellation of the entire 2004–05 season, in 2009, the NHL enjoyed record highs in terms of sponsorships, attendance, and television audiences. The league draws many highly skilled players from all over the world, canadians have historically constituted the majority of the players in the league, with an increasing percentage of American and European players in recent seasons. The National Hockey League was established in 1917 as the successor to the National Hockey Association, founded in 1909, the NHA began play one year later with seven teams in Ontario and Quebec, and was one of the first major leagues in professional ice hockey. Realizing the NHA constitution left them unable to force Livingstone out, the four teams voted instead to suspend the NHA, frank Calder was chosen as its first president, serving until his death in 1943. The Bulldogs were unable to play, and the remaining owners created a new team in Toronto, the first games were played on December 19,1917. The Montreal Arena burned down in January 1918, causing the Wanderers to cease operations, the NHL replaced the NHA as one of the leagues that competed for the Stanley Cup, which was an interleague competition back then. Toronto won the first NHL title, and then defeated the Vancouver Millionaires of the Pacific Coast Hockey Association for the 1918 Stanley Cup. The Canadiens won the title in 1919, however their Stanley Cup Final against the PCHAs Seattle Metropolitans was abandoned as a result of the Spanish Flu epidemic. Montreal in 1924 won their first Stanley Cup as a member of the NHL, the Hamilton Tigers, won the regular season title in 1924–25 but refused to play in the championship series unless they were given a C$200 bonus. The league refused and declared the Canadiens the league champion after defeated the Toronto St. Patricks in the semi-final. Montreal was then defeated by the Victoria Cougars of the Western Canada Hockey League for the 1925 Stanley Cup and it was the last time a non-NHL team won the trophy, as the Stanley Cup became the de facto NHL championship in 1926 after the WCHL ceased operation. The National Hockey League embarked on rapid expansion in the 1920s, adding the Montreal Maroons, the Bruins were the first American team in the league. The New York Americans began play in 1925 after purchasing the assets of the Hamilton Tigers, the New York Rangers were added in 1926. The Chicago Black Hawks and Detroit Cougars were also added after the league purchased the assets of the defunct WCHL, a group purchased the Toronto St. Patricks in 1927 and immediately renamed them the Maple Leafs. The first NHL All-Star Game was held in 1934 to benefit Ace Bailey, the second was held in 1937 in support of Howie Morenzs family when he died of a coronary embolism after breaking his leg during a game

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Ice hockey
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Ice hockey is a contact team sport played on ice, usually in a rink, in which two teams of skaters use their sticks to shoot a vulcanized rubber puck into their opponents net to score points. Ice hockey teams usually consist of six each, one goaltender. A fast-paced, physical sport, ice hockey is most popular in areas of North America, Ice hockey is the official national winter sport of Canada, where the game enjoys immense popularity. In North America, the National Hockey League is the highest level for mens hockey, the Kontinental Hockey League is the highest league in Russia and much of Eastern Europe. The International Ice Hockey Federation is the governing body for international ice hockey. The IIHF manages international tournaments and maintains the IIHF World Ranking, worldwide, there are ice hockey federations in 74 countries. Ice hockey is believed to have evolved from simple stick and ball games played in the 18th and 19th century United Kingdom and these games were brought to North America and several similar winter games using informal rules were developed, such as shinny and ice polo. The contemporary sport of ice hockey was developed in Canada, most notably in Montreal, some characteristics of that game, such as the length of the ice rink and the use of a puck, have been retained to this day. Amateur ice hockey began in the 1880s, and professional ice hockey originated around 1900. The Stanley Cup, emblematic of ice hockey club supremacy, was first awarded in 1893 to recognize the Canadian amateur champion, in international competitions, the national teams of six countries predominate, Canada, Czech Republic, Finland, Russia, Sweden and the United States. Of the 69 medals awarded all-time in mens competition at the Olympics, in the annual Ice Hockey World Championships,177 of 201 medals have been awarded to the six nations. In Russia and the Ukraine, where hockey can also refer to bandy, the name hockey has no clear origin. The English historian and biographer John Strype did not use the word hockey when he translated the proclamation in 1720, the 1573 Statute of Galway banned a sport called hokie—the hurling of a little ball with sticks or staves. A form of this word was thus being used in the 16th century, though much removed from its current usage. According to the Austin Hockey Association, the word derives from the Scots Gaelic puc or the Irish poc. The blow given by a hurler to the ball with his caman or hurley is always called a puck. Stick-and-ball games date back to pre-Christian times, in Europe, these games included the Irish game of hurling, the closely related Scottish game of shinty and versions of field hockey. IJscolf, a game resembling colf on a surface, was popular in the Low Countries between the Middle Ages and the Dutch Golden Age. It was played with a curved bat, a wooden or leather ball

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Toronto Maple Leafs
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The Toronto Maple Leafs are a professional ice hockey team based in Toronto, Ontario. They are members of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League, the team is one of the Original Six league members. They are owned by Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment, Ltd. and are represented by Chairman Larry Tanenbaum, in February 1999, they moved to the Air Canada Centre, which replaced Maple Leaf Gardens, the teams home since 1931. The franchise was founded in 1917, operating simply as Toronto and known today as the Toronto Arenas, as it was operated by the Toronto Arena Company, in 1919, the NHL transferred the franchise to new owners who christened the team the Toronto St. Patricks. The franchise was sold in 1927 and was renamed the Toronto Maple Leaf Hockey Club, the team colours are navy blue and white. The Maple Leafs have won thirteen Stanley Cup championships, second only to the 24 championships of their primary rival and they won their last championship in 1967. Their 48-season drought between championships is currently the longest in the NHL, with an estimated worth of US $1.15 billion in 2015 according to Forbes, the Leafs are the third most valuable franchise in the NHL, behind the Montreal Canadiens and the New York Rangers. In 2015, they were ranked by Forbes as the 37th most valuable team in the world. The National Hockey League was formed in 1917 in Montreal by teams belonging to the National Hockey Association that had a dispute with Eddie Livingstone. Instead, they opted to create a new league, the NHL and they also remained voting members of the NHA, and thus had enough votes to suspend the other leagues operations, effectively leaving Livingstones squad in a one-team league. However, the other wanted to have a team from Toronto. They also needed another team to balance the schedule after the Bulldogs suspended operations, the NHL granted a temporary Toronto franchise to the Arena Company, owners of the Arena Gardens. The Arena Company leased the Blueshirts players and was given until the end of the season to resolve the dispute with Livingstone, the franchise did not have an official name, but was informally called the Blueshirts or the Torontos by the fans and press. Under Manager Charlie Querrie and Head Coach Dick Carroll, the Toronto team won the Stanley Cup in the NHLs inaugural season, although the roster was composed almost entirely of former Blueshirts, the Maple Leafs do not claim the Blueshirts history. Also that year, the Arena Company decided that only NHL teams would be allowed to play at the Arena Gardens—a move which effectively killed the NHA, Livingstone sued to get his players back. Mounting legal bills from the dispute forced the Arenas to sell most of their stars, when it was obvious that the Arenas would not be able to finish the season, the NHL agreed to let the team halt operations on February 20,1919. The NHL ended its season and started the playoffs, the Arenas.278 winning percentage that season is still the worst in franchise history. However, the 1919 Stanley Cup Finals ended without a winner due to the flu epidemic

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Hart Memorial Trophy
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The Hart Memorial Trophy, originally known as the Hart Trophy, is awarded annually to the player judged most valuable to his team in the National Hockey League. The original trophy was donated to the league in 1923 by David Hart, the father of Cecil Hart, the Hart Trophy has been awarded 90 times to 54 different players since its beginnings in 1924. Each year, members of the Professional Hockey Writers Association vote to determine the player who was the most valuable to his team during the regular season, the Hart Memorial Trophy is named in honour of Canadian Dr. David Hart. Dr. Hart, who donated the trophy to the NHL, was the father of Cecil Hart. The trophy was first awarded at the conclusion of the 1923–24 NHL season to Frank Nighbor of the Ottawa Senators. The original Hart Trophy was retired to the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1960, and the NHL began presenting a new trophy, which was dubbed the Hart Memorial Trophy in its place. With the exceptions of Tommy Anderson, Al Rollins, and José Theodore, wayne Gretzky won the award a record nine times during his career, eight consecutively. He has been named MVP more times than any player in the history of the other three North American major professional leagues. Barry Bonds is second, having won the MVP award seven times in the MLB, Gretzky and his Edmonton Oilers teammate Mark Messier are the only players to win the Hart Trophy with more than one team. Joe Thornton became the only Hart Trophy winner to have switched clubs during his campaign during the 2005–06 season. The defenseman with the most trophy victories is Eddie Shore, who has four, by contrast, it is rare for a goaltender to win the award, which has happened only seven times in its history, Buffalo Sabres goaltender Dominik Hasek is the only two-time winner. Three finalists are named and the trophy is awarded at the NHL Awards ceremony after the playoffs, the closest the voting for the Hart Trophy has ever come was in the 2001–02 season, when Jose Theodore and Jarome Iginla tied in the total voting. The tiebreaker for choosing the Hart Trophy winner in such a case is number of votes, Theodore claimed it. In 2008, the NHLs official online shop came under criticism after they placed a T-shirt advertising Alexander Ovechkin as the winner on sale a week before the results were revealed. In this situation, the link for one of the products became live early through an error by our e-commerce provider. Ovechkin was later confirmed to be the winner

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Howie Morenz
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Howard William Howie Morenz was a Canadian professional ice hockey player. Beginning in 1923, he played centre for three National Hockey League teams, the Montreal Canadiens, the Chicago Black Hawks, and the New York Rangers. Before joining the NHL, Morenz excelled in the junior Ontario Hockey Association, where his team played for the Memorial Cup, in the NHL, he was one of the most dominant players in the league and set several league scoring records. A strong skater, Morenz was referred to as the Stratford Streak, considered one of the first stars of the NHL, Morenz played 14 seasons in the league. He was a member of a Stanley Cup–winning team three times, all with the Canadiens, during his NHL career he placed in the top 10 leading scorers ten times. For seven straight seasons, Morenz led the Canadiens in both goals scored and points, three times in his career he was named the most valuable player of the league, and he led the league once in goals scored and twice in points scored. He was named to the NHL All-Star Team three times, Morenz died from complications of a broken leg, an injury he suffered in a game. After his death, the Canadiens retired his number, the first time the team had done so for any player. When the Hockey Hall of Fame opened in 1945, Morenz was one of the original nine inductees. In 1950, the Canadian Press named him the best ice hockey player of the first half of the 20th century, and in 2017 the NHL included him on their list of the 100 greatest players in league history. Born in Mitchell, Ontario to William Frederick Morenz and Rosena Pauli, Morenz learned his hockey by playing shinny on the Thames River. At the age of eight, he played his first organized game as a goaltender, after that game, a coach switched Morenz to rover, a defensive position. After the Morenz family moved to the community of Stratford in May 1917. At the age of 18, Morenz became an apprentice with the Canadian National Railways factory in Stratford, when not playing hockey, Morenz bet avidly on horse races and played the ukulele. In 1926 he married Mary McKay, together, they had three children, Howie Jr. in 1927, Donald in 1933, and Marlene in 1934, Marlene later married Bernie Geoffrion, who played for both the Canadiens and Rangers from 1950 to 1968. Their son, Morenzs grandson Dan, played for the Canadiens in 1979-80, dans son, Blake, played with the University of Wisconsin and won the Hobey Baker Award as best collegiate player in 2010. Selected in the 2006 NHL Entry Draft by the Nashville Predators, he made his debut with the Predators in 2011, Blake was traded to Montreal in 2012, meaning that all four generations of the Morenz-Geoffrion family have played within the Canadiens organization. In 1920 Morenz joined the Stratford Midgets junior team, leading the Ontario Hockey Association in assists and points during the 1920–21 regular season, the Midgets won the league title and played in the 1921 Memorial Cup against the Winnipeg Falcons

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Busher Jackson
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Ralph Harvey Busher Jackson was a Canadian professional ice hockey player. Jackson played 15 National Hockey League seasons between 1929 and 1944 for the Toronto Maple Leafs, New York Americans and Boston Bruins and he was a member of the famed Kid Line with Joe Primeau and Charlie Conacher, one of the early NHLs dominant scoring trios. Jackson led the league in scoring in 1931–32 and was member of Torontos 1932 Stanley Cup championship team and he was named to five NHL All-Star Teams and played in three benefit all-star games, including the Ace Bailey Benefit Game, the first all-star game in NHL history. Off the ice, Jackson was well known for his high-spending lifestyle and he was remembered as one of hockeys tragic figures following his retirement, as he struggled with alcoholism and financial difficulty. He was a figure of controversy within the Hockey Hall of Fame selection committee as Jacksons lifestyle and he finally earned a place in the Hall of Fame in 1971, five years after his death. Jackson is also a member of Canadas Sports Hall of Fame. Selke signed Jackson to a contract and assigned him to the Toronto Marlboros in the Ontario Hockey Association s junior league for the 1927–28 season and he returned to the team for the 1928–29 season, scoring 10 goals and 14 points in 9 regular season games. He then led the OHA playoffs with seven goals and nine points as the Marlboros won the OHA championship, Jackson was a leading offensive player for Toronto in the 1929 Memorial Cup playdowns, scoring 15 goals and 25 points in 13 games. The Marlboros reached the final, defeating the Elmwood Millionaires in a series to win the franchises first Memorial Cup championship. Joining the Maple Leafs for the 1929–30 season, 18-year-old Jackson was the youngest player in the National Hockey League, in his league debut, against the Montreal Canadiens, Jackson knocked over his idol Howie Morenz with a bodycheck. Assessing the youngsters potential following the hit, Morenz offered, youll do, Jackson appeared in 31 games for the Maple Leafs, scoring 12 goals and adding 6 assists. He missed some time due to injury, during which he earned his nickname from the teams trainer, according to Jackson, Daly asked me to carry sticks for him. I told him I wasnt a boy, I was a hockey player. So he said I was nothing but a fresh busher and the name stuck, during his first season, Jackson was placed on a line with two other young players. Charlie Conacher, a teammate of his with the Marlboros, played right wing, the trio formed what became known as the Kid Line, one of the early NHLs most famous scoring trios. Primeau was the playmaker whose passes set up both Conacher and Jacksons goal-scoring ability, following a 31-point season in 1930–31, Jackson led the NHL in scoring with 53 points in 1931–32. At 21 years,3 months old, Jackson became the youngest scoring champion in NHL history, Jacksons 28 goals that season was the most he would score in his career, and he was named to the NHLs First All-Star Team for the first time of his career. The Kid Line remained Torontos top offensive threat for several years, Jackson, Conacher, following his league-leading season, Jackson led Toronto offensively in 1932–33 with 44 points

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Montreal Canadiens
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The Montreal Canadiens are a professional ice hockey team based in Montreal, Quebec. They are members of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League, the clubs official name is le Club de hockey Canadien. The team is referred to in English and French as the Habs. French nicknames for the team include Les Canadiens, Le Bleu-Blanc-Rouge, La Sainte-Flanelle, Le Tricolore, Les Glorieux, Les Habitants, Le CH and Le Grand Club. Founded in 1909, the Canadiens are the longest continuously operating professional ice hockey team worldwide, the franchise is one of the Original Six teams, a description used for the teams that made up the NHL from 1942 until the 1967 expansion. The teams championship season in 1992–93 was the last time a Canadian team won the Stanley Cup, the Canadiens have won the Stanley Cup more times than any other franchise. They have won 24 Stanley Cups,22 of them since 1927, on a percentage basis, as of 2014, the franchise has won 25. Since 1996, the Canadiens have played their games at Centre Bell. The team previously played at the Montreal Forum which housed the team for seven decades and all, the Canadiens were founded by J. Ambrose OBrien on December 4,1909, as a charter member of the National Hockey Association, the forerunner to the National Hockey League. It was to be the team of the community in Montreal, composed of francophone players. The teams first season was not a success, as they placed last, after the first year, ownership was transferred to George Kennedy of Montreal and the teams fortunes improved over the next seasons. The team won its first Stanley Cup championship in the 1915–16 season, in 1917, with four other NHA teams, the Canadiens formed the NHL, and they won their first NHL Stanley Cup during the 1923–24 season, led by Howie Morenz. The team moved from the Mount Royal Arena to the Montreal Forum for the 1926–27 season, the club began the 1930s decade successfully, with Stanley Cup wins in 1930 and 1931. The Canadiens and its rival, the Montreal Maroons, declined both on the ice and economically during the Great Depression. Losses grew to the point where the team owners considering selling the team to interests in Cleveland, Ohio, the Maroons still suspended operations, and several of their players moved to the Canadiens. Led by the Punch Line of Maurice Rocket Richard, Toe Blake and Elmer Lach in the 1940s, the Canadiens added ten more championships in 15 seasons from 1965 to 1979, with another dynastic run of four-straight Cups from 1976 to 1979. In the 1976–77 season, the Canadiens set two still-standing team records — for most points, with 132, and fewest losses, by losing eight games in an 80-game season. The next season, 1977–78, the team had a 28-game unbeaten streak, scotty Bowman, who would later set a record for most NHL victories by a coach, was the teams head coach for its last five Stanley Cup victories in the 1970s

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New York Rangers
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The New York Rangers are a professional ice hockey team based in New York City. They are members of the Metropolitan Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League, the team plays its home games at Madison Square Garden, located in the borough of Manhattan. The Rangers are one of three NHL franchises in the New York metropolitan area, along with the New Jersey Devils, the club is also one of the oldest teams in the NHL, having joined in 1926 as an expansion franchise. They are part of the group of teams referred to as the Original Six, along with the Boston Bruins, Chicago Blackhawks, Detroit Red Wings, Montreal Canadiens and Toronto Maple Leafs. The Rangers were the first NHL franchise in the United States to win the Stanley Cup, the new team was quickly nicknamed Texs Rangers. Rickards franchise began play in the 1926–27 season, the first team crest was a horse sketched in blue carrying a cowboy waving a hockey stick aloft, before being changed to the familiar R-A-N-G-E-R-S in diagonal. Rickard managed to get future legendary Toronto Maple Leafs owner Conn Smythe to assemble the team. However, Smythe had a falling-out with Rickards hockey man, Col. John S. Hammond, Smythe was replaced by Pacific Coast Hockey Association co-founder Lester Patrick. The new team Smythe assembled turned out to be a winner, the Rangers won the American Division title their first year but lost to the Boston Bruins in the playoffs. The teams early success led to players becoming minor celebrities and fixtures in New York Citys Roaring Twenties nightlife and it was also during this time, playing at the Garden on 48th Street, blocks away from Times Square, that the Rangers obtained their now-famous nickname The Broadway Blueshirts. In only their season, the Rangers won the Stanley Cup. One of the most memorable stories that emerged from the Finals involved Patrick playing in goal at the age of 44, an angry Patrick lined up between the pipes for two periods in Game 2 of the Stanley Cup Finals, allowing one goal to Maroons center Nels Stewart. Frank Boucher would eventually score the goal in overtime for New York. The Rangers would spend the rest of the 1930s playing close to 0.500 hockey until their next Cup win, Lester Patrick stepped down as head coach and was replaced by Frank Boucher. In 1939–40 season, the Rangers finished the season in second place behind Boston. The two teams would meet in the first round of the playoffs. The Bruins gained a series lead from New York, but the Rangers recovered to win three-straight games. The Rangers first round victory gave them a bye until the finals, the Detroit Red Wings defeated the New York Americans in their first round best-of-three series two games to one, and the Toronto Maple Leafs ousted the Chicago Black Hawks two games to none

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List of NHL seasons
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This is a list of seasons of the National Hockey League, a professional ice hockey league, since its inception in 1917. The list also includes the seasons of the National Hockey Association, the organization of the NHL. Only two franchises, Montreal and Toronto, still exist from the founding of the league, the Quebec Bulldogs, which suspended after the last NHA season, returned to play in the third NHL season, although they were considered founding members of the NHL. The team would be moved by the league to Hamilton, the original Ottawa Senators would continue in the league until 1935, where, after one season in St. Louis as the St. Louis Eagles, the franchise was dissolved by the league. The current Ottawa Senators franchise does recognize the history of the original Senators, the list is sub-divided using the same eras as the series of articles on the History of the National Hockey League. This changed in 1917 with the invention of the split-season, whereby the champion became the winner of the annual playoff, the NHL continued the split-season and playoff format upon the winding up of the NHA organization. Except for the 1919–20 season, where there was no playoff because Ottawa won both halves of the season, the champion of the NHL has been the playoff champion, the NHA champion was awarded the OBrien Cup. This was continued by the NHL, until 1927, the NHL champion was awarded the OBrien Cup, supplemented by the Prince of Wales Trophy, starting in 1925. To win the Stanley Cup, the NHL champion had to play off in a series with the champion of the Pacific Coast or Western hockey leagues. After 1927, the NHL playoff champion was awarded the Stanley Cup, while the OBrien Cup and Prince of Wales Trophy were reused as division championship and playoff runner-up awards. Hockey seasons traditionally started in January and ended in March until the 1910–11 season which was the first to start before the new year, the 1911–12 season saw the elimination of the rover position, reducing number of skaters per side to six. The 1916–17 season saw the introduction of the schedule, an innovation attributed to Toronto NHA owner Eddie Livingstone. All champion teams are also Stanley Cup champions unless marked. ^2, the league did not use tiebreakers to determine the top record. The two teams played off to determine the championship. ^3, Toronto and Battalion did not participate in the second half. ^ 4a. No Finals prior to 1914, Stanley Cup awarded to league winners, Finals in 1915 and 1916 contested between top two teams of regular season. ^ 4c. Finals from 1917 through 1921 contested between qualifier from first half-season and qualifier from second half-season, the NHL started with three of the six NHA clubs and a Toronto franchise run by the Toronto Arena Co. which leased the players of the Toronto Blueshirts. Almost immediately after starting the season, the Wanderers folded, leaving three teams to complete the season, the same three teams returned for 1918–19 before Quebec returned for 1919–20, moving to Hamilton the following year. The same four-team configuration lasted until 1924–25 when the Montreal Maroons, expansion into other cities followed, lasting until the 1930s, when several teams folded

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Ottawa Senators (original)
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The Ottawa Senators were a professional, ice hockey team based in Ottawa, Canada which existed from 1883 to 1954. The club was the first hockey club in Ontario, a member of the National Hockey League. The club, which was officially the Ottawa Hockey Club, was known by nicknames, including the Generals in the 1890s, the Silver Seven from 1903 to 1907. Generally acknowledged by historians as one of the greatest teams of the early days of the sport. Ottawa HC played in the first season during which the Stanley Cup was challenged in 1893, the club repeated its success in the 1920s, winning the Stanley Cup in 1920,1921,1923 and 1927. In total, the won the Stanley Cup eleven times. In 1950, Canadian sports editors selected the Ottawa HC/Senators as Canadas greatest team in the first half of the 20th century. The club competed in the NHL until the 1933–34 season, when it relocated the NHL franchise to St. Louis, Missouri, the organization continued the Senators as an amateur, and later semi-professional, team in Quebec senior mens leagues until 1954. The Ottawa Hockey Club was founded by a group of like-minded hockey enthusiasts. A month after witnessing games of hockey at the 1883 Montreal Winter Carnival, Halder Kirby, Jack Kerr and Frank Jenkins met, being the first organized ice hockey club in Ottawa, and also the first in Ontario, the club had no other clubs to play that season. The only activities that winter were practices at the Royal Rink starting on March 5,1883, the club first participated competitively at the 1884 Montreal Winter Carnival ice hockey tournament wearing red and black uniforms. Future Ottawa mayor Nelson Porter is recorded as the scorer of the clubs first-ever goal, Frank Jenkins was the first captain of the team, he later became the president of the Hockey Club in 1891 and of the Amateur Hockey Association of Canada in 1892. For the 1885 season, the club adopted gold and blue as its colours, Ottawa earned its first-ever victory at the tournament over the Montreal Victorias, but lost its final match to the Montreal Hockey Club to place second in the tournament. The 1886 Montreal tournament was cancelled due to an outbreak of smallpox, on December 8,1886, the first championship league, the Amateur Hockey Association of Canada was founded in Montreal. It was composed of clubs from Montreal plus a Quebec City club. Ottawas Thomas D. Green was named the first president of the league, under the format, Ottawa lost the one challenge it played in that first 1887 season to the Montreal Victorias. After that season, Ottawa HC became inactive, the Royal Rink, which had been their primary facility, had been converted to a roller skating rink, and ice rink facilities were at a shortage. This changed with the opening of the Rideau Skating Rink in February 1889, One of the principal organizers in the restarting of the team was Ottawa Journal publisher P. D. Ross, who also played on the team

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Philadelphia Quakers (NHL)
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The Philadelphia Quakers were an American professional ice hockey team that played only one full season in the National Hockey League, 1930–31, at the Philadelphia Arena in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. They were the successors of the Pittsburgh Pirates, the Pirates, the third American-based NHL team, got off to a promising start in 1925–26, making the playoffs in two of their first three seasons. However, the team fell on hard times both on the ice and at the box office. A sale to bootlegger Bill Dwyer did not help the cause, with the stock market crash of 1929 followed by the Great Depression, the owners found themselves having to sell off their star players to make ends meet. By the end of the 1929–30 season, the team was $400,000 in debt, and their arena, boxing promoter Benny Leonard, Dwyers front man, then requested permission to temporarily move to Philadelphia as the Quakers until a new arena was built in Pittsburgh. Things did not get better on the side of Pennsylvania. On the ice, the Quakers were the definition of futility and it took the team three games to score a goal and three more to get its first win, which came on November 25, a 2–1 win over the visiting Toronto Maple Leafs. They finished with a horrendous 4–36–4 record, the.136 winning percentage was the lowest in NHL history, a record that would stand for 45 years until the Washington Capitals finished with a.131 winning percentage in 1974–75. The four wins tied the 1919–20 Quebec Bulldogs for the fewest wins in NHL history for a team played a full season. They had the worst offense and worst defense in the league, the Flyers would adopt the orange and black colors used by the Quakers. While the Senators came back for 2 years before moving to St. Louis, at each of the next five season-opening NHL governors meetings, they announced that they were suspending operations for that season. They officially canceled the franchise on May 7,1936, when a new arena in Pittsburgh was no longer evident, Pittsburgh would not see a new arena until 1961, when the Civic Arena was constructed. The NHL returned to Pittsburgh the same year it returned to Philadelphia with the arrival of the Penguins, twenty-three players — three goaltenders and twenty skaters — played for the Quakers during their lone season of existence. Syd Howe, who played his first full NHL season with the Quakers, was the last active Quaker playing his final NHL games with the Detroit Red Wings during the 1945–46 season, Howe was also the only Quakers player inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame. Quakers coach J. Hib Milks was the Quakers only captain, key Hockey Hall of Famer The Seasons column lists the first year of the season of the players first game and the last year of the season of the players last game. For example, a player who played one game in the 2000–2001 season would be listed as playing with the team from 2000–2001, Hib Milks, 1930–31 Pittsburgh Pirates 1930–31 Philadelphia Quakers season Philadelphia Quakers History

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Stanley Cup
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The Stanley Cup is the championship trophy awarded annually to the National Hockey League playoff winner. The first Cup was awarded in 1893 to Montreal HC, and subsequent winners from 1893 to 1914 were determined by challenge games, Professional teams first became eligible to challenge for the Stanley Cup in 1906. After a series of mergers and folds, it was established as the de facto championship trophy of the NHL in 1926. There are actually three Stanley Cups, the bowl of the Dominion Hockey Challenge Cup, the authenticated Presentation Cup. The NHL has maintained control over both the trophy itself and its associated trademarks. Nevertheless, the NHL does not actually own the trophy, the original bowl was made of silver and is 18.5 centimetres in height and 29 centimetres in diameter. The current Stanley Cup, topped with a copy of the bowl, is made of a silver and nickel alloy, it has a height of 89.54 centimetres. Unlike the trophies awarded by the major professional sports leagues of North America. Originally, the winners kept it until a new champion was crowned, currently, winning teams get the Stanley Cup during the summer and a limited number of days during the season. It is unusual among trophies to include winning members names, every year since 1924, a select portion of the winning players, coaches, management, and club staff names are engraved on its bands. However, there is not enough room to include all the players and non-players, initially a new band added each year, though this caused the trophy to grow in size, earning the nickname Stovepipe Cup. In 1958 the modern one-piece Cup was designed with a barrel which could contain 13 winning teams per band. To prevent the Stanley Cup from growing, when the band is full, the oldest band is removed and preserved in the Hockey Hall of Fame. It has been referred to as The Cup, Lord Stanleys Cup, The Holy Grail, the Stanley Cup is surrounded by numerous legends and traditions, the oldest of which is the celebratory drinking of champagne out of the cup by the winning team. Since the 1914–15 season, the Cup has been won a combined 100 times by 18 active NHL teams, prior to that, the challenge cup was held by nine different teams. The Montreal Canadiens have won the Cup a record 24 times and are the most recent Canadian-based team to win the cup, the Stanley Cup was not awarded in 1919 because of a Spanish flu epidemic, and in 2005, as a consequence of the 2004–05 NHL lockout. After the Lord Stanley of Preston was appointed by Queen Victoria as Governor General of Canada on June 11,1888, he, Stanley was first exposed to the game at Montreals 1889 Winter Carnival, where he saw the Montreal Victorias play the Montreal Hockey Club. The Montreal Gazette reported that he expressed his delight with the game of hockey

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Chicago Stadium
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Chicago Stadium was an indoor arena located in Chicago. It opened in 1929, and closed in 1994, the Stadium hosted the Chicago Blackhawks of the NHL from 1929–1994 and the Chicago Bulls of the NBA from 1967–1994. The stadium was first proposed by Chicago sports promoter Paddy Harmon, Harmon wanted to bring an NHL team to Chicago, but he lost out to Col. Frederic McLaughlin. This team would soon be known as the Chicago Black Hawks, Harmon then went on to at least try to get some control over the team by building a stadium for the Blackhawks to play in. He spent $2.5 million and borrowed funds from friends. Opened on March 28,1929 at a cost of $9.5 million, detroits Olympia stadium, built two years earlier, was a model for the Chicago stadium and had a capacity of over 15,000 people. It was also the first arena with an air conditioning system, the Stadium sat 17,317 for hockey at the time of closure. Standees were allowed for many years, and often the official figures in the published game summaries were given in round numbers. The largest recorded crowd for an NHL game at the stadium was 20,069 for a game between the Blackhawks and Minnesota North Stars on April 10,1982. Melgard played for decades during hockey games there, earning the Stadium the moniker The Madhouse on Madison, for years, it was also known as The Loudest Arena in the NBA, due to its barn-shaped features. Thats the kind of place Chicago Stadium is right now, the dressing rooms at the Stadium were placed underneath the seats, and the cramped corridor that led to the ice, with its twenty-two steps, became the stuff of legend. Legend has it a German Shepherd wandered the bowels at night as the security team. In the 1973 Stanley Cup Final against Montreal, Chicago owner Bill Wirtz had the NHLs first goal horn installed in the building and it also became traditional for Blackhawk fans to cheer loudly throughout the singing of the national anthems, especially when sung by Chicago favorite Wayne Messmer. Denizens of the second balcony often added sparklers and flags to the occasion, arguably, the most memorable of these was the singing before the 1991 NHL All-Star Game, which took place during the Gulf War. This tradition has continued at the United Center, longtime PA announcer Harvey Wittenberg had a unique monotone style, Blackhawk goal scored by #9, Bobby Hull, unassisted, at 6,13. In 1992, both the Blackhawks and the Bulls reached the finals in their respective leagues, the Blackhawks last won the Stanley Cup at the Stadium in 1938, they did not win the Cup again at home until 2015 at the United Center. It was also the last NHL arena to retain the use of an analog dial-type large four-sided clock for timekeeping in professional hockey games, the difficulty was compounded on the main central dial from the aforementioned minute and sweep-second hands being in constant motion during gameplay. The Sports Timers only digital displays were for scoring and for penalized players numbers, each comprising a six-high

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Chicago Blackhawks
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The Chicago Blackhawks are a professional ice hockey team based in Chicago, Illinois. They are members of the Central Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League and they have won six Stanley Cup championships since their founding in 1926. The Blackhawks are one of the Original Six NHL teams along with the Detroit Red Wings, Montreal Canadiens, Toronto Maple Leafs, Boston Bruins, since 1994, the clubs home rink is the United Center. The club had played for 65 years at Chicago Stadium. The clubs original owner was Frederic McLaughlin, who owned the club until his death in 1944, under McLaughlin, a hands-on owner who fired many coaches during his ownership, the club won two Stanley Cup titles. The club was owned by the Norris family, who as owners of the Chicago Stadium were the clubs landlord. At first, the Norris ownership was as part of a syndicate fronted by long-time executive Bill Tobin, after the senior James E. Norris died in 1952, the Norris assets were spread among family members and James D. Norris became owner. Norris Jr. took an active interest in the team and under his ownership, after James D. Norris died in 1966, the Wirtz family became owners of the franchise. In 2007, the club came under the control of Rocky Wirtz, who is credited with turning around the organization, under Rocky Wirtz, the Blackhawks won the Stanley Cup three times within six seasons. On May 1,1926, the NHL awarded a franchise for Chicago to a syndicate headed by former football star Huntington Hardwick of Boston. However, only one later, Hardwicks group sold out to Chicago coffee tycoon Frederic McLaughlin. McLaughlin had been a commander with the 333rd Machine Gun Battalion of the 86th Infantry Division during World War I and this Division was nicknamed the Blackhawk Division after a Native American of the Sauk nation, Black Hawk, who was a prominent figure in the history of Illinois. McLaughlin named the new team in honor of the military unit. The Black Hawks began play in the 1926–27 season, along with new expansion franchises Detroit Cougars, McLaughlin took a very active role in running the team despite having no background in the sport. McLaughlin hired Bill Tobin, a goaltender who had played in the Western league, as his assistant. He was also interested in promoting American hockey players, then very rare in professional hockey. The Hawks first season was a moderate success and they played their first game on November 17 when they played the Toronto St. Patricks in the Chicago Coliseum. The Black Hawks won their first game 4–1, in front of a crowd of over 7,000 and they ended up finishing the season in third place with a record of 19–22–3

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Detroit Falcons (hockey)
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The Detroit Red Wings are a professional ice hockey team based in Detroit, Michigan. They are members of the Atlantic Division in the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League and are one of the Original Six teams of the league, founded in 1926, the team was known as the Detroit Cougars from then until 1930. For the 1930–31 and 1931–32 seasons the team was called the Detroit Falcons, between the 1933–34 and 1965–66 seasons, the Red Wings missed the playoffs only four times. Between the 1966–67 and 1990–91 seasons, the Red Wings made the only eight times in 25 seasons. During the last 11 years of this stretch, only five of the Leagues 21 teams did not make the post-season and this rough period for the team provoked the nickname of the Dead Wings. Near the end of that 25-year period, however, the Red Wings advanced to the Conference Finals twice. They have made the playoffs in 30 of the last 32 seasons, including 25 in a row, during a subsequent meeting on May 15, the league approved a franchise to the Townsend-Seyburn group of Detroit and named Charles A. Hughes as governor. Frank and Lester Patrick, the owners of the WHL, made a deal to sell the players to the NHL. The new Detroit franchise purchased the players of the folded Victoria Cougars WHL club to play for the team, the new Detroit franchise also adopted the Cougars nickname in honor of the folded franchise. Since no arena in Detroit was ready at the time, the Cougars played their first season in Windsor, for the 1927–28 season, the Cougars moved into the new Detroit Olympia, which would be their home rink until December 27,1979. This was also the first season behind the bench for Jack Adams, the Cougars made the Stanley Cup playoffs for the first time in 1929 with Carson Cooper leading the team in scoring. The Cougars were outscored 7–2 in the series with the Toronto Maple Leafs. In 1930, the Cougars were renamed the Falcons, but their woes continued, as they finished near the bottom of the standings. In 1932, the NHL let grain merchant James E. Norris, Norris first act was to choose a new name for the team—the Red Wings. Earlier in the century, Norris had been a member of the Montreal Amateur Athletic Association, the MAAAs teams were known by their club emblem and these Winged Wheelers were the first winners of the Stanley Cup in 1893. Norris decided that a version of their logo was perfect for a team playing in the Motor City, Norris also placed coach Jack Adams on a one-year probation for the 1932–33 NHL season. Adams managed to pass his probationary period by leading the franchise to first ever playoff series victory over the Montreal Maroons. Despite this success, the team lost in the semi-finals to the New York Rangers, in 1934 the Wings made the Stanley Cup Finals for the first time, with John Sorrell scoring 21 goals over 47 games and Larry Aurie leading the team in scoring

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Frank Calder
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Frank Sellick Calder was an ice hockey executive, a journalist and athlete. He is most notable for serving as the first president of the National Hockey League from 1917 until his death in 1943. He was the last president of the NHLs predecessor league, the National Hockey Association and was instrumental in the transition from the NHA to the NHL, a transition made to expel a franchise owner. He presided over the expansion of the NHL from Canada into the United States while at the same time fending off of rivals to the NHLs status as the ice hockey league. Frank Calder was born to Scottish parents in Bristol, England on November 17,1877, Calder participated in many English sports as a youth, including rugby, cricket, handball, golf, and soccer. As a young man, he immigrated to Canada and became a teacher at a private school, before leaving the United Kingdom, he flipped a coin to decide whether he should immigrate to Canada or to the United States. He married a teacher, Amelia Cole, and they had three sons and one daughter. Calder worked as an editor at the Montreal Witness. From there, he moved to the Montreal Herald and Daily Telegraph and he maintained his interest in sports, creating the Montreal School Rugby League. He was elected a member of the committee of the PQFA in 1911 and 1912. Earlier he was a referee and had refereed the game between the Montreal All-Stars and the touring Corinthians from England in 1906, on November 15,1914, Calder was appointed secretary-treasurer of the National Hockey Association. He served as secretary-treasurer until 1917 when Frank Robinson resigned as president of the NHA, in 1917, the NHAs owners decided to drop Eddie Livingstones Toronto Blueshirts franchise and took his players. The NHAs president, Frank Robinson, seeing he was as powerless as his predecessor Emmett Quinn was, Calder, the league secretary, saw opportunity in the situation. He decided that the NHA owners allied against Eddie Livingstone needed someone to represent them and he arranged meetings between the NHAs owners to figure out how to get rid of Livingstone. They decided to form a new league, the National Hockey League, Calder was elected president of the new league which was officially established on November 26,1917. Calder wielded his power as president with authority, one example of this authority occurred during the Hamilton Tigers strike in 1925. Rather than negotiate with the players, he suspended and fined them each $200, Calder was adamant that minorities would not be restricted in the NHL. Only one attempt to remove Calder as president of the NHL was made and this was in 1932–33 when the owner of the Chicago Black Hawks, Frederic McLaughlin, circulated a letter to the NHL board of governors to remove him

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Maple Leaf Gardens
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Maple Leaf Gardens is a historic building located at the northwest corner of Carlton Street and Church Street in Toronto, Canada. The building was constructed as an arena to host ice hockey games. Considered one of the cathedrals of ice hockey, it was home to the Toronto Maple Leafs of the National Hockey League from 1931 to 1999, the Leafs won the Stanley Cup 11 times from 1932 to 1967 while playing at the Gardens. The first NHL All-Star Game, albeit an unofficial one, was held at the Gardens in 1934 as a benefit for Leafs forward Ace Bailey, the first official annual National Hockey League All-Star Game was also held at Maple Leaf Gardens in 1947. The NBAs Buffalo Braves played a total of 16 regular season games at Maple Leaf Gardens from 1971 to 1975, the NBAs Toronto Raptors played six games at the Gardens from 1997 to 1999, mostly when SkyDome was unavailable. It was also one of the few venues outside of the United States where Elvis Presley performed in concert, in 1972, Maple Leaf Gardens hosted game 2 of the famous Summit Series between Team Canada and the USSR. Team Canada won the game 4–1, the Toronto Maple Leafs had been playing in the Arena Gardens on Mutual Street. It was built in 1912 and held 7,500 for ice hockey, by 1930, Leafs managing director Conn Smythe decided the Arena was too small and he wanted to build a new arena, larger and more impressive. After considering various sites, the site at the corner of Carlton, Eaton Co. Ltd. for $350,000, a price said to be $150,000 below market value. The new 12,473 seat arena was designed by the firm of Ross. To finance the construction, Smythe launched Maple Leaf Gardens Limited, a management company that would own the arena, a public offering of shares in MLGL was made at C$10 each, with a free common share for each five preferred shares purchased. Ownership of the team was transferred to MLGL in return for shares. His son, Foster Hewitt, was hired to run the radio broadcasts, the contract to construct the building was awarded to Thomson Brothers Construction of Port Credit in Toronto Township. That price did not include work, which was estimated at an additional $100,000. Additional savings were made through deals with unions, in exchange for shares in MLGL. Construction began at midnight on June 1,1931, in what is to this day considered to be a remarkable accomplishment, the Gardens was constructed in five months and two weeks at a cost of C$1.5 million. Team owner Ballard lived in the owners suite built into the arenas top northeast corner, the Gardens opened on November 12,1931, with the Maple Leafs losing 2–1 to the Chicago Blackhawks. Reported attendance on opening night was 13,542, the Leafs would go on to win their first Stanley Cup as the Maple Leafs that season

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Conn Smythe
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Constantine Falkland Cary Smythe, MC was a Canadian businessman, soldier and sportsman in ice hockey and horse racing. He is best known as the owner of the Toronto Maple Leafs of the National Hockey League from 1927 to 1961. As owner of the Leafs during numerous championship years, his appears on the Stanley Cup eight times,1932,1942,1945,1947,1948,1949,1951 and 1962. Smythe is also known for having served in both World Wars, organizing his own artillery battery in the Second World War, the horses of Smythes racing stable won the Queens Plate twice among 145 stakes race wins during his lifetime. Smythe started and ran a successful sand and gravel business and he was a big supporter of the Ontario Society for Crippled Children and the Variety Club and founded the Conn Smythe Foundation philanthropic organization. Conn Smythe was born on February 1,1895, in Toronto to Albert Smythe, an Irish Protestant from County Antrim who immigrated to Canada in 1889, and Mary Adelaide Constantine, Mary and Albert were married in the 1880s while immigrating to Canada. Albert and Mary had a marriage and did not live together for more than a few months at a time. Mary, who was known as Polly, was remembered by Conn as pretty, a drinker and troublemaker, while Albert was quiet, a vegetarian and a devoted member of Madame Blavatskys Theosophical movement. Albert Smythe was a member of the Theosophical Society of Canada in 1891. Smythes first home was 51 McMillan Street, now known as Mutual Street and he was the second of two children born to Mary and Albert. Conn had a sister, Mary, five years older, who died due to illness in 1903, the family was poor and moved several times during Smythes youth, the size of lodgings depending on Albert Smythes wages at the time. At one point, Albert and Conn moved to a house in Scarborough while Mary, conns mother Mary died in 1906, and Smythe attributes his mothers drinking with making him a lifelong abstainer from alcohol. At age eleven Conn was christened and that was the first time that he insisted on Conn instead of his name of Constantine. Albert and Conn became estranged after Albert began a new relationship with Jane Henderson, the two married in 1913 and had a daughter Moira. Smythe first went to school at Upper Canada College. He hated it, and after a year and a half he transferred to Jarvis Collegiate Institute, Smythe developed his athleticism there, playing on hockey, rugby football and basketball teams, playing on city championship teams in basketball and hockey in 1912. At the age of 16, Conn Smythe met Irene Sands, his wife, after a football game against Parkdale Collegiate Institute. Albert Smythe wanted his son to university after grade 12 but Smythe defied his father, bolting at age 17 to become a homesteader on 150 acres in Clute Township, near Cochrane

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Frank Selke
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Francis Joseph Aloysius Frank Selke was a Canadian hockey manager in the National Hockey League. He was a nine-time Stanley Cup champion with the Toronto Maple Leafs and Montreal Canadiens, born in Berlin, Ontario, Selke was managing the Iroquois Bantams in his hometown at the age of 14. He coached the Berlin Union Jacks junior team in the Ontario Hockey Association from 1912 to 1915, in 1919, he coached the University of Toronto Schools hockey team to the first Memorial Cup title. He coached the St. Marys junior OHA team to its third-straight SPA junior championship in the 1924–25 season, in 1926–27, the team became the Toronto Marlboros, and again won the junior SPA championship. Eventual Hall of Famer Red Horner was a defenceman on the Toronto team. During his time with the organization, Selke also coached the Marlboros senior team, in 1927–28, Selke became coach and manager of the Toronto Ravinas of the Canadian Professional Hockey League, with Primeau as the teams leading scorer. The team was bought by the Toronto Maple Leafs and renamed the Toronto Falcons mid-season, late in the year, the team played some home games in Brantford, Ontario, after drawing poor crowds in Toronto. Rejoining the Marlboros in 1928–29, Selke helped lead the team to the 1929 Memorial Cup championship, Selke became the top assistant to Maple Leafs managing director Conn Smythe in September 1929 — a position he would hold until 1946. He helped raise funds for the construction of Maple Leaf Gardens in 1931, while Smythe served in World War II, Selke filled in as acting manager of the Leafs and Maple Leaf Gardens. He did such a job in that role that some of the directors of the company wanted him to remain in charge after Smythe returned. Selke and Smythe clashed when Selke traded Frank Eddolls to the Montreal Canadiens for the rights to Ted Kennedy in 1943. Kennedy would go on to one of Smythes favourite Leafs. Once Smythe returned to Toronto, there was tension between the two, particularly after Selke wouldnt back Smythes bid to become president of Maple Leaf Gardens Ltd, with his working conditions becoming intolerable, Selke turned in his resignation in May 1946. Two months after resigning from the Leafs, Selke was hired as manager of the Montreal Forum and he took over a Montreal team that had just come off two Stanley Cup championships in the previous three seasons, but was in financial trouble. Regardless, he signed a deal of players and created an extensive farm system. Anchored by Hall of Famers Maurice Richard, Elmer Lach, Doug Harvey and Jacques Plante, after falling to the rival Detroit Red Wings in seven games in consecutive years,1954 and 1955, the Canadiens won a record five consecutive Cups from 1956 to 1960. Selke retired after the 1963–64 season, turning the reins over to Sam Pollock and he died in 1985 at the age of 92 in Rigaud, Quebec. A nine-time Stanley Cup champion, Selke was elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1960, a while after his retirement, in 1978, the NHL inaugurated the Frank J. Selke Trophy that is awarded annually to the best defensive forward in the league

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Chicago Black Hawks
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The Chicago Blackhawks are a professional ice hockey team based in Chicago, Illinois. They are members of the Central Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League and they have won six Stanley Cup championships since their founding in 1926. The Blackhawks are one of the Original Six NHL teams along with the Detroit Red Wings, Montreal Canadiens, Toronto Maple Leafs, Boston Bruins, since 1994, the clubs home rink is the United Center. The club had played for 65 years at Chicago Stadium. The clubs original owner was Frederic McLaughlin, who owned the club until his death in 1944, under McLaughlin, a hands-on owner who fired many coaches during his ownership, the club won two Stanley Cup titles. The club was owned by the Norris family, who as owners of the Chicago Stadium were the clubs landlord. At first, the Norris ownership was as part of a syndicate fronted by long-time executive Bill Tobin, after the senior James E. Norris died in 1952, the Norris assets were spread among family members and James D. Norris became owner. Norris Jr. took an active interest in the team and under his ownership, after James D. Norris died in 1966, the Wirtz family became owners of the franchise. In 2007, the club came under the control of Rocky Wirtz, who is credited with turning around the organization, under Rocky Wirtz, the Blackhawks won the Stanley Cup three times within six seasons. On May 1,1926, the NHL awarded a franchise for Chicago to a syndicate headed by former football star Huntington Hardwick of Boston. However, only one later, Hardwicks group sold out to Chicago coffee tycoon Frederic McLaughlin. McLaughlin had been a commander with the 333rd Machine Gun Battalion of the 86th Infantry Division during World War I and this Division was nicknamed the Blackhawk Division after a Native American of the Sauk nation, Black Hawk, who was a prominent figure in the history of Illinois. McLaughlin named the new team in honor of the military unit. The Black Hawks began play in the 1926–27 season, along with new expansion franchises Detroit Cougars, McLaughlin took a very active role in running the team despite having no background in the sport. McLaughlin hired Bill Tobin, a goaltender who had played in the Western league, as his assistant. He was also interested in promoting American hockey players, then very rare in professional hockey. The Hawks first season was a moderate success and they played their first game on November 17 when they played the Toronto St. Patricks in the Chicago Coliseum. The Black Hawks won their first game 4–1, in front of a crowd of over 7,000 and they ended up finishing the season in third place with a record of 19–22–3

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Eddie Shore
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On January 1,2017, in a ceremony prior to the Centennial Classic, Shore was part of the first group of players to be named one of the 100 Greatest NHL Players in history. Shore won the Hart Trophy as the NHLs most valuable player four times, a bruiser known for his violence, Shore set a then-NHL record for 165 penalty minutes in his second season. Shore started his career with his minor hockey team in Cupar. Shore played with the Regina Capitals of the Western Canada Hockey League in 1925 and his team finished last in the league and folded at the end of the season. Shore moved to the league champion Edmonton Eskimos in 1926, where he converted from forward to defence and was given the nickname the Edmonton Express, when the Western Hockey League folded in 1926, Shore was sold to the Boston Bruins of the NHL. As a rookie, he scored 12 goals and six assists for a total of 18 points, Shore helped the Bruins win their first Stanley Cup in 1929. In the 1925–26 season, Billy Coutu and Sprague Cleghorn of the Montreal Canadiens were traded to the Boston Bruins, during their first practice with the Bruins, Shore strutted back and forth in front of Coutu and Cleghorn. Coutu body-slammed, head-butted, elbowed and tried to torment Shore, next Coutu picked up the puck and made a rush at Shore. Shore held his ground and Coutu flew through the air violently crashing to the ice, Shores ear was almost ripped off but he barely noticed it. Coutu was out cold and was out of commission for a week, Shore visited several doctors who wanted to amputate the ear, but found one who sewed it back on. After refusing anesthetic, Shore used a mirror to watch the doctor sew the ear on, Shore claimed Coutu used his hockey stick to cut off the ear, and Coutu was fined $50. Shore later recanted and Coutus money was refunded, another unusual incident involving Shore occurred in January 1930 when he was challenged to a boxing match by baseball player Art Shires. On January 24,1933, during a game against Montreal, in Boston on December 12,1933, Shore ended the career of Toronto Maple Leafs star Ace Bailey when he hit Bailey from behind. Shore had checked Bailey, apparently in retaliation for a hit that Shore had received from Baileys teammate King Clancy moments earlier, when Baileys head hit the ice he was knocked unconscious and went into convulsions. In retaliation, Leafs tough-guy Red Horner punched Shore, whose head hit the ice as he fell from the blow, Shore was knocked out and required seven stitches but wasnt seriously injured. Bailey was rushed to hospital in critical condition with a fractured skull, following the incident, Shore was suspended for 16 games by the league. Shore apologized to Bailey after the game, and the two hands at centre ice before a benefit game at Maple Leaf Gardens in Baileys honour on February 14,1934. Shore and the Bruins won their second Stanley Cup in 1939, Shore retired and bought the Springfield Indians of the American Hockey League, where he was player-owner in 1939–40

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James Strachan (ice hockey)
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James F. Strachan was a Canadian ice hockey executive and businessman. He was an owner or part-owner with Montreal, Quebec, Canada teams, Strachan was owner and president of the Montreal Wanderers from 1904 to 1909 during which the Wanderers won 3 of their 4 Stanley Cups in 1906,1907 and 1908. In 1908–09, he served as their head coach. He sold the club to P. J. Doran in 1909, the sale eventually triggered the formation of the National Hockey Association when Doran moved the Wanderers to the Jubilee Rink. The Rink was smaller than the Wanderers previous rink, the Montreal Arena, the Wanderers then formed their own league in partnership with Ambrose OBrien. The ECHAs new league failed and some of the joined the NHA. Strachan later served as first president of the Montreal Maroons ice hockey club, Strachan intended for the Maroons to be a revival of the Wanderers but he could not secure clear title to the name. The original Wanderers had folded in 1918 after a fire at the Montreal Arena, lacking a name, the club was dubbed the Maroons after the colour of their jerseys. In their second season the Maroons won the Stanley Cup championship in 1926, Strachan served as Maroons president from their founding in 1924 until June 1934, when he resigned to take care of his businesses. The Montreal Maroons, the forgotten Stanley Cup champions

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Detroit Red Wings
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The Detroit Red Wings are a professional ice hockey team based in Detroit, Michigan. They are members of the Atlantic Division in the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League and are one of the Original Six teams of the league, founded in 1926, the team was known as the Detroit Cougars from then until 1930. For the 1930–31 and 1931–32 seasons the team was called the Detroit Falcons, between the 1933–34 and 1965–66 seasons, the Red Wings missed the playoffs only four times. Between the 1966–67 and 1990–91 seasons, the Red Wings made the only eight times in 25 seasons. During the last 11 years of this stretch, only five of the Leagues 21 teams did not make the post-season and this rough period for the team provoked the nickname of the Dead Wings. Near the end of that 25-year period, however, the Red Wings advanced to the Conference Finals twice. They have made the playoffs in 30 of the last 32 seasons, including 25 in a row, during a subsequent meeting on May 15, the league approved a franchise to the Townsend-Seyburn group of Detroit and named Charles A. Hughes as governor. Frank and Lester Patrick, the owners of the WHL, made a deal to sell the players to the NHL. The new Detroit franchise purchased the players of the folded Victoria Cougars WHL club to play for the team, the new Detroit franchise also adopted the Cougars nickname in honor of the folded franchise. Since no arena in Detroit was ready at the time, the Cougars played their first season in Windsor, for the 1927–28 season, the Cougars moved into the new Detroit Olympia, which would be their home rink until December 27,1979. This was also the first season behind the bench for Jack Adams, the Cougars made the Stanley Cup playoffs for the first time in 1929 with Carson Cooper leading the team in scoring. The Cougars were outscored 7–2 in the series with the Toronto Maple Leafs. In 1930, the Cougars were renamed the Falcons, but their woes continued, as they finished near the bottom of the standings. In 1932, the NHL let grain merchant James E. Norris, Norris first act was to choose a new name for the team—the Red Wings. Earlier in the century, Norris had been a member of the Montreal Amateur Athletic Association, the MAAAs teams were known by their club emblem and these Winged Wheelers were the first winners of the Stanley Cup in 1893. Norris decided that a version of their logo was perfect for a team playing in the Motor City, Norris also placed coach Jack Adams on a one-year probation for the 1932–33 NHL season. Adams managed to pass his probationary period by leading the franchise to first ever playoff series victory over the Montreal Maroons. Despite this success, the team lost in the semi-finals to the New York Rangers, in 1934 the Wings made the Stanley Cup Finals for the first time, with John Sorrell scoring 21 goals over 47 games and Larry Aurie leading the team in scoring

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Boston Bruins
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The Boston Bruins are a professional ice hockey team based in Boston, Massachusetts. They are members of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League, the team has been in existence since 1924, and is the leagues third-oldest team and is the oldest in the United States. It is also an Original Six franchise, along with the Chicago Blackhawks, Detroit Red Wings, Montreal Canadiens, New York Rangers and Toronto Maple Leafs. The Bruins have won six Stanley Cup championships, tied for fourth most of all-time with the Blackhawks and their home arena is the TD Garden, where they have played since 1995. The Bruins began play in the NHL on December 1,1924, in 1924, at the convincing of Boston grocery magnate Charles Adams, the National Hockey League decided to expand to the United States. Adams had fallen in love with hockey while watching the 1924 Stanley Cup Finals between the NHL champion Montreal Canadiens and the WCHL champion Calgary Tigers. With the Montreal Maroons, the team was one of the NHLs first expansion teams, Adams first act was to hire Art Ross, a former star player and innovator, as general manager. Ross was the face of the franchise for the thirty years. In 1924, Adams directed Ross to come up with a nickname for the franchise, arthur Ross picked a name by himself. According to him, a Bruin is an animal and alliterative with Boston. The background of the Bruins black and gold colorway dates back to their founder, Black and gold were the colors of Adams’ grocery chain, which made Boston Bruins uniforms a spot to advertise on. On December 1,1924, the new Bruins team played their first NHL game against the Maroons, at Boston Arena, but the team only managed a 6–24–0 record in its first season. In their third season, 1926–27, the team markedly improved, the Bruins reached the Stanley Cup Final despite finishing only one game above.500, but lost to the Ottawa Senators in the first Cup Final to be between exclusively NHL teams. In 1929 the Bruins defeated the New York Rangers to win their first Stanley Cup, standout players on the first championship team included Shore, Harry Oliver, Dit Clapper, Dutch Gainor and goaltender Tiny Thompson. The 1928–29 season was the first played at Boston Garden, which Adams had built after guaranteeing his backers $500,000 in gate receipts over the five years. The 1930s Bruins teams included Shore, Thompson, Clapper, Babe Siebert, the team led the leagues standings five times in the decade. In 1939, the changed its uniform colors from brown and yellow to the current black and gold. That year, Thompson was traded for rookie goaltender Frank Brimsek, Brimsek had an award-winning season, capturing the Vezina and Calder Trophies, becoming the first rookie named to the NHL First All-Star Team, and earning the nickname Mr. Zero

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New York Americans
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The New York Americans, colloquially known as the Amerks, were a professional ice hockey team based in New York City, New York from 1925 to 1942. They were the expansion team in the history of the National Hockey League. The team never won the Stanley Cup, but reached the semifinals twice. While it was the first team in New York City, it was eclipsed by the second, the New York Rangers, the team operated as the Brooklyn Americans during the 1941–42 season before suspending operations in 1942 due to the World War II and long-standing financial difficulties. The demise of the club marked the beginning of the NHLs Original Six era from 1942 to 1967, the teams overall regular season record was 255–402–127. In 1923, Thomas Duggan received options on three NHL franchises for the United States, after selling one to Boston grocery magnate Charles Adams, which became the Boston Bruins in 1924, Duggan arranged with Tex Rickard to have a team in Madison Square Garden. Rickard agreed, but play was delayed until the new Garden was built in 1925, in April of that year, Duggan and Bill Dwyer, New York Citys most-celebrated prohibition bootlegger, were awarded the franchise for New York. Somewhat fortuitously given the shortage of players, the Hamilton Tigers, however, the suspensions were quietly lifted in the off-season. Soon afterward, Dwyer duly bought the rights to the Tiger players for $75,000. He gave the players healthy raises—in some cases. Just before the season, Dwyer announced his team would be named the New York Americans and their original jerseys were covered with stars and stripes, patterned after the American flag. Although he acquired the Tigers players, Dwyer did not acquire the franchise, as a result, the NHL does not consider the Americans to be a continuation of the Tigers—or for that matter, of the Tigers predecessors, the Quebec Bulldogs. The Americans entered the league in the 1925–26 season along with the Pittsburgh Pirates, the Americans and Pirates became the second and third American-based teams in the NHL, following Adams Boston Bruins, who began play the previous season. Success did not come easily for the Americans, even though their roster was substantively the same that finished first the previous year, in the Americans first season they finished fifth overall with a record of 12–22–4. However, they did prove a success at the box office, so much so that the following season Garden management landed a team of its own, a clause in the Amerks lease with the Garden required them to support any bid for the Garden to acquire an NHL franchise. The Garden had promised Dwyer that it would never exercise that option, however, when the Garden opted to seek its own team after all, the Amerks had little choice but to agree. They were thus doomed to a history as New York Citys second team. The 1926–27 season saw the Americans continue to struggle, finishing 17–25–2, part of the problem was that they were placed in the Canadian Division in defiance of all geographic reality, resulting in a larger number of train trips to Montreal, Toronto and Ottawa. Meanwhile, the Rangers won the American Division title, the 1928–29 NHL season saw the Amerks sign star goaltender Roy Worters from the Pittsburgh Pirates

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Aurel Joliat
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Aurèle Émile Mighty Atom, Little Giant Joliat was a Canadian professional ice hockey left winger who played 16 seasons in the National Hockey League for the Montreal Canadiens. Joliat began his hockey career in 1916, playing for several Canadian amateur teams in Ottawa and Iroquois Falls. In 1922, however, Joliat was awarded to the Montreal Canadiens in compensation for the Saskatoon Sheiks of the Western Canada Hockey League signing aging superstar Newsy Lalonde. At first, the deal of an unknown for the greatest player in the game was unpopular with Habs fans. The following season, Joliat helped the Canadiens to the Stanley Cup in 1924 over the WCHLs Calgary Tigers and he helped the Canadiens win two more cups in 1930 and 1931. Joliat proved noteworthy as a forward, particularly for the ability to counterattack after a breakup. Despite his lack of size—at 5′7″ and 136 lbs, Joliat was one of the smallest players in the game—he was also notable for a refusal to back off from on-ice confrontations. His breakout season was 1925, when teamed with Howie Morenz and Billy Boucher, Joliat scored 29 goals to lead the NHL and he would remain an impact scorer for the Habs through the 1938 season, and retired the following year, reportedly devastated by Morenzs recent death. Joliat finished his career with 270 goals and 460 points in 655 games and he was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1947. In 1985, Joliat skated around the Montreal Forum to an ovation as a special treat for the fans. Despite falling twice, he stood up and finished his skate. At the time of his retirement, Joliat was third, behind Nels Stewart and his teammate Howie Morenz, ranked 65th on The Hockey News list of the 100 greatest NHL players of all time. Named to the inaugural NHL First All-Star Team at left wing in 1931, named a Second Team All-Star in 1932,1934 and 1935. He scored the first documented empty net goal in NHL history, the goal, with twelve seconds to play, sealed the Canadiens January 21,1932, home win against the Toronto Maple Leafs. Won the Hart Memorial Trophy as the NHLs Most Valuable Player in 1934, despite playing in an era where seasons totaled no more than 48 games, Joliat remains in ninth place all-time on the Canadiens career goal-scoring list and second among left wingers to Steve Shutt. Named to the 75th Anniversary All-Time Team by the Canadiens in 1984 and his number 4 jersey was co-retired in 1984, having been previously retired in Jean Béliveaus honour. His brother Robert also played professional hockey and he was the referee when Maurice Richard played his first NHL game in 1942. He was the inspiration for Wilson MacDonalds 1935 poem Monsieur Joliat, Aurèle Joliats biography at Legends of Hockey Aurèle Joliats career statistics at The Internet Hockey Database

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Chuck Gardiner (ice hockey)
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Charles Robert Chuck Gardiner was a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender who played for the Chicago Black Hawks in the National Hockey League. Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, Gardiner moved with his family to Canada as a child, playing all of his junior hockey in or around Winnipeg, Manitoba, Gardiner joined the Chicago Black Hawks in the 1927–28 season. He played seven seasons with Chicago, winning two Vezina Trophies, earning three berths to the First All-Star team, and a berth to the Second All-Star team, in 1934, Gardiner became the only NHL goaltender to captain his team to a Stanley Cup win. A few months after winning the Cup, Gardiner died from a hemorrhage brought on by a tonsillar infection. He became posthumously a charter member of the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1945, Gardiner was born in Edinburgh, Scotland to John and Janet Gardiner. The fourth of five children, there was also Gardiners two older brothers, John and Alexander, a sister, Edith, and a younger sister. In 1911, when Gardiner was seven, he and the rest of his family emigrated to Winnipeg, the family initially lived in a house on William Avenue before relocating to Alexander Street, both streets were south of the railways, and were full of Scottish-Irish working-class families. John took a job as a rail car repairer, and Gardiner took an early interest in the trains and he was enrolled at the Albert School, and befriended Wilf Cude, who had immigrated from Wales who would also go on to be a National Hockey League goaltender. When the First World War began in 1914, both of Gardiners brothers enlisted and were sent overseas, Gardiners father John also enlisted, but he died May 30,1916 before he was sent overseas. Both his brothers returned home after the war ended, while Alex was unharmed, John had been involved in a gas attack. To help provide for the family Gardiner began working for the J. H. Ashdown Hardware Company at the age of twelve, in December 1928 John began to develop an illness as a result of his poison gas attack in the war, and died December 13. Edith had planned to get married on December 31, but wanted to delay the marriage because of Johns death, Gardiner married Myrtle Brooks August 6,1927 at Grace United Church in Winnipeg. Their first son, Robert Roy, was born May 20,1929 and they also had a girl on May 7,1931, but she died the same day. While working at the store, Gardiner first played organised sports as a member of the stores baseball team. Gardiner quickly started playing ice hockey, with the passion as the children who were born in Canada. As he didnt learn to skate until he was eight-years-old, he couldnt skate very fast and was forced to play as the goaltender and he had tried to play as a forward and defenceman, but was too slow for either position. Playing on Winnipegs frozen ponds, Gardiner employed a style, instead of the nearly-universal stand-up style played in that era, to avoid having his hands. He joined the Victorias, a team in the Winnipeg City League and he recorded a shutout in his first game, but the team was shut out in their following game, so Gardiner was cut

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Charlie Gardiner (ice hockey)
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Charles Robert Chuck Gardiner was a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender who played for the Chicago Black Hawks in the National Hockey League. Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, Gardiner moved with his family to Canada as a child, playing all of his junior hockey in or around Winnipeg, Manitoba, Gardiner joined the Chicago Black Hawks in the 1927–28 season. He played seven seasons with Chicago, winning two Vezina Trophies, earning three berths to the First All-Star team, and a berth to the Second All-Star team, in 1934, Gardiner became the only NHL goaltender to captain his team to a Stanley Cup win. A few months after winning the Cup, Gardiner died from a hemorrhage brought on by a tonsillar infection. He became posthumously a charter member of the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1945, Gardiner was born in Edinburgh, Scotland to John and Janet Gardiner. The fourth of five children, there was also Gardiners two older brothers, John and Alexander, a sister, Edith, and a younger sister. In 1911, when Gardiner was seven, he and the rest of his family emigrated to Winnipeg, the family initially lived in a house on William Avenue before relocating to Alexander Street, both streets were south of the railways, and were full of Scottish-Irish working-class families. John took a job as a rail car repairer, and Gardiner took an early interest in the trains and he was enrolled at the Albert School, and befriended Wilf Cude, who had immigrated from Wales who would also go on to be a National Hockey League goaltender. When the First World War began in 1914, both of Gardiners brothers enlisted and were sent overseas, Gardiners father John also enlisted, but he died May 30,1916 before he was sent overseas. Both his brothers returned home after the war ended, while Alex was unharmed, John had been involved in a gas attack. To help provide for the family Gardiner began working for the J. H. Ashdown Hardware Company at the age of twelve, in December 1928 John began to develop an illness as a result of his poison gas attack in the war, and died December 13. Edith had planned to get married on December 31, but wanted to delay the marriage because of Johns death, Gardiner married Myrtle Brooks August 6,1927 at Grace United Church in Winnipeg. Their first son, Robert Roy, was born May 20,1929 and they also had a girl on May 7,1931, but she died the same day. While working at the store, Gardiner first played organised sports as a member of the stores baseball team. Gardiner quickly started playing ice hockey, with the passion as the children who were born in Canada. As he didnt learn to skate until he was eight-years-old, he couldnt skate very fast and was forced to play as the goaltender and he had tried to play as a forward and defenceman, but was too slow for either position. Playing on Winnipegs frozen ponds, Gardiner employed a style, instead of the nearly-universal stand-up style played in that era, to avoid having his hands. He joined the Victorias, a team in the Winnipeg City League and he recorded a shutout in his first game, but the team was shut out in their following game, so Gardiner was cut

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Lorne Chabot
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Lorne Chabotsky Chabot was a Canadian professional ice hockey player. Chabot played in the National Hockey League from 1926 to 1937 and he was a member of two Stanley Cup championship teams, the New York Rangers in 1928, and the Toronto Maple Leafs in 1932. Chabot played for the New York Rangers, Toronto Maple Leafs, Montreal Canadiens, Chicago Black Hawks, Montreal Maroons, Chabot won the Vezina Trophy in 1934-35 for being the leagues best goaltender. During his stint with the Rangers, he was credited as Lorne Chabotsky. Chabot was also the goalie who was injured during the 1928 playoffs, Chabot played in the two longest games in NHL history, losing the longest in 1935-36 and winning the second longest in 1932-33. He was the first hockey player to appear on the cover of Time Magazine, years after his retirement, he suffered from severe arthritis and was bedridden. He developed Brights Disease and after a bout with it, he died. In 1998, he was ranked number 84 on The Hockey News list of the 100 Greatest Hockey Players and he was the only player on the list then eligible for the Hockey Hall of Fame who has not been elected to it. In the book 100 Ranger Greats by Russ Cohen, John Halligan and Adam Raider, in The Hockey News Collectors Edition The Top 100 Players of All-Time Lorne Chabot was rated as the 20th best goaltender. He is the only goalie in the top 20 not inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame. In 1998, he was ranked number 84 on The Hockey News list of the 100 Greatest Hockey Players, New York, Dodd, Mead & Company. Notes Lorne Chabots biography at Legends of Hockey Lorne Chabots career statistics at The Internet Hockey Database

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Charlie Conacher
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An early power forward, Conacher was nicknamed The Big Bomber, for his size, powerful shot and goal scoring. He led the NHL five times in goals, and twice led in overall scoring, over five seasons from 1931-32 to 1935-36 Conacher was named to three NHL First All-Star Teams and two NHL Second All-Star Teams. He is an Honoured Member of the Hockey Hall of Fame, in 2013, Charlie Conacher was inducted into the Ontario Sports Hall of Fame. On January 1,2017, in a prior to the Centennial Classic. Conacher played three years of hockey, most notably with the Toronto Marlboros. Playing with future Maple Leafs teammate Harvey Busher Jackson, he achieved staggering scoring numbers, signed the next season by the Maple Leafs with Jackson, Toronto manager Conn Smythe paired the two with former farmhand Joe Primeau. Although he missed six games at the end of the season with an infected hand, the following season, Conacher broke into the elite of the league, despite missing a number of games due to a reinjured hand. He scored 31 goals - the first of five times he led the league in goal scoring - and finishing third overall in points to Howie Morenz, Primeau finished 6th in league scoring as well, and Jackson 15th. The 1932 season saw the move into the new Maple Leaf Gardens. Once again, Conacher missed time with a hand, during which a curious incident took place. League rules stated that a receiving a third major penalty in the season would receive a one-game suspension. Conacher had two at the time of his injury, but he was dressed by coach Irvin, with Dick Irvin the new coach of the Leafs, the Kid Line shone, leading Toronto to a Stanley Cup championship. Things would change in 1937, Primeau and Clancy retired, while Conacher broke a wrist in training camp, an injury initially thought not serious. However, Conacher would only play 15 games that season and 19 the next after suffering a shoulder, as chronic injuries caught up to him. The Detroit Red Wings, seeking to improve their team, purchased Conacher in the fall of 1939 for a sum reported to be $16,000, while he finished fourth on the Wings in scoring with 23 points, his days as a superstar were over. He was optioned the following season to the New York Americans, only 30, Conacher retired after the 1941 season. The Generals finished in place in both 1946 and 1947 - coincidentally, losing in both seasons to the St. Michaels College Majors, coached by his old linemate Joe Primeau. After resigning from his coaching post in Oshawa, Conacher was named to replace Johnny Gottselig as coach of the Chicago Black Hawks 28 games into the 1949 season

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Detroit Falcons (NHL)
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The Detroit Red Wings are a professional ice hockey team based in Detroit, Michigan. They are members of the Atlantic Division in the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League and are one of the Original Six teams of the league, founded in 1926, the team was known as the Detroit Cougars from then until 1930. For the 1930–31 and 1931–32 seasons the team was called the Detroit Falcons, between the 1933–34 and 1965–66 seasons, the Red Wings missed the playoffs only four times. Between the 1966–67 and 1990–91 seasons, the Red Wings made the only eight times in 25 seasons. During the last 11 years of this stretch, only five of the Leagues 21 teams did not make the post-season and this rough period for the team provoked the nickname of the Dead Wings. Near the end of that 25-year period, however, the Red Wings advanced to the Conference Finals twice. They have made the playoffs in 30 of the last 32 seasons, including 25 in a row, during a subsequent meeting on May 15, the league approved a franchise to the Townsend-Seyburn group of Detroit and named Charles A. Hughes as governor. Frank and Lester Patrick, the owners of the WHL, made a deal to sell the players to the NHL. The new Detroit franchise purchased the players of the folded Victoria Cougars WHL club to play for the team, the new Detroit franchise also adopted the Cougars nickname in honor of the folded franchise. Since no arena in Detroit was ready at the time, the Cougars played their first season in Windsor, for the 1927–28 season, the Cougars moved into the new Detroit Olympia, which would be their home rink until December 27,1979. This was also the first season behind the bench for Jack Adams, the Cougars made the Stanley Cup playoffs for the first time in 1929 with Carson Cooper leading the team in scoring. The Cougars were outscored 7–2 in the series with the Toronto Maple Leafs. In 1930, the Cougars were renamed the Falcons, but their woes continued, as they finished near the bottom of the standings. In 1932, the NHL let grain merchant James E. Norris, Norris first act was to choose a new name for the team—the Red Wings. Earlier in the century, Norris had been a member of the Montreal Amateur Athletic Association, the MAAAs teams were known by their club emblem and these Winged Wheelers were the first winners of the Stanley Cup in 1893. Norris decided that a version of their logo was perfect for a team playing in the Motor City, Norris also placed coach Jack Adams on a one-year probation for the 1932–33 NHL season. Adams managed to pass his probationary period by leading the franchise to first ever playoff series victory over the Montreal Maroons. Despite this success, the team lost in the semi-finals to the New York Rangers, in 1934 the Wings made the Stanley Cup Finals for the first time, with John Sorrell scoring 21 goals over 47 games and Larry Aurie leading the team in scoring

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Olympia Stadium
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The Detroit Olympia was an indoor arena that stood at 5920 Grand River Avenue in Detroit from 1927 until 1987. It was best known as the home of the Detroit Red Wings hockey team of the National Hockey League from its opening until 1979, in July 1926, the Detroit Hockey Club unveiled drawings for the Olympia arena to be built on the site. The cornerstone for the building was laid by Mayor John W. Smith on March 8,1927, shortly thereafter, the primary tenants of the building, the NHL Cougars, began their long residence. The Cougars played their first game at the Olympia on November 22,1927, however, the visiting Ottawa Senators defeated the Cougars, 2–1. The Cougars later became the Falcons and finally, in 1932, were named the Detroit Red Wings by new owner James E. Norris. In addition to the Red Wings, the Olympia was also home to the Detroit Olympics International-American Hockey League minor league team in the 1930s and it hosted the NBA All-Star Game in 1959 and the NCAA Mens Ice Hockey Championship in 1977 and 1979. It hosted concerts by The Beatles on September 6,1964 and August 13,1966, as well as concerts by popular performers and bands. After the NBAs Detroit Pistons moved from Cobo Hall in Detroit to the Pontiac Silverdome in suburban Pontiac in 1975, the neighborhood surrounding the Olympia had been in decline since the 1967 riots, and two murders occurred within the buildings shadow. The package included operational control of both the new arena, nearby Cobo Arena and the parking structures. The Red Wings accepted Detroits offer and moved into the new Joe Louis Arena, the Olympia was considered to be a well-constructed building. Lincoln Cavalieri, general manager of Olympia Stadium, once said, if an atom bomb landed, Id want to be in Olympia. Cavalieri, along with many in the Red Wings organization, was sad to leave it behind. On December 15,1979, three days after the first event held at Joe Louis Arena, the Red Wings played their home game at the Olympia. Attendance at that game was 15,609, the Olympia was included in part of the celebration of the 32nd NHL All-Star Game, which took place at Joe Louis Arena on February 5,1980. Overhead exit signs erected in the early 1970s along the Jeffries Freeway mentioning Olympia Stadium were taken down around 1980, currently, the Michigan National Guards Olympia Armory occupies the site. A historical marker is posted inside the armory commemorating the Olympia, the building was 32.6 m tall and constructed of a steel frame faced with red brick with brown terra cotta and stone trim in a Romanesque Revival style. The Grand River and McGraw facades originally included 13 storefronts, near the parapet were terra cotta medallions depicting various athletes. When it opened, Olympia contained the largest indoor skating rink in the United States at 242 ft by 110 ft, the Grand River facade featured three-story arched windows with a large recessed arch in the center

National Hockey League
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Headquartered in New York City, the NHL is considered to be the premier professional ice hockey league in the world, and one of the major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada. The Stanley Cup, the oldest professional sports trophy in North America, is awarded annually to the playoff champion at the end of each season. At its

Ice hockey
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Ice hockey is a contact team sport played on ice, usually in a rink, in which two teams of skaters use their sticks to shoot a vulcanized rubber puck into their opponents net to score points. Ice hockey teams usually consist of six each, one goaltender. A fast-paced, physical sport, ice hockey is most popular in areas of North America, Ice hockey i

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The San Jose Sharks (teal) attempt to prevent the Anaheim Ducks (white) from scoring a goal during the 2007–08 NHL season.

Toronto Maple Leafs
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The Toronto Maple Leafs are a professional ice hockey team based in Toronto, Ontario. They are members of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League, the team is one of the Original Six league members. They are owned by Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment, Ltd. and are represented by Chairman Larry Tanenbaum, in Feb

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Created by Charles Pachter, the Hockey Knights in Canada Leafs mural was installed in 1984 on the southbound side of College subway station, the nearest station to Maple Leaf Gardens, then the Maple Leafs' home arena (the Canadiens' one is installed on the northbound side of the same station).

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Author Roch Carrier as a ten-year-old boy (wearing a Toronto Maple Leafs sweater) and presumably the inspiration of his children's book The Hockey Sweater

Hart Memorial Trophy
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The Hart Memorial Trophy, originally known as the Hart Trophy, is awarded annually to the player judged most valuable to his team in the National Hockey League. The original trophy was donated to the league in 1923 by David Hart, the father of Cecil Hart, the Hart Trophy has been awarded 90 times to 54 different players since its beginnings in 1924

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Hart Memorial Trophy

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Elmer Lach with the original trophy in 1945

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Nels Stewart, two-time winner

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Wayne Gretzky, nine-time winner

Howie Morenz
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Howard William Howie Morenz was a Canadian professional ice hockey player. Beginning in 1923, he played centre for three National Hockey League teams, the Montreal Canadiens, the Chicago Black Hawks, and the New York Rangers. Before joining the NHL, Morenz excelled in the junior Ontario Hockey Association, where his team played for the Memorial Cup

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Howie Morenz

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Morenz while playing junior ice hockey

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Morenz posing for a photo after the Canadiens won the 1930 Stanley Cup

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After breaking his leg, Morenz was unable to move from his hospital bed.

Busher Jackson
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Ralph Harvey Busher Jackson was a Canadian professional ice hockey player. Jackson played 15 National Hockey League seasons between 1929 and 1944 for the Toronto Maple Leafs, New York Americans and Boston Bruins and he was a member of the famed Kid Line with Joe Primeau and Charlie Conacher, one of the early NHLs dominant scoring trios. Jackson led

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Busher Jackson

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The Kid Line of Conacher, Primeau and Jackson

Montreal Canadiens
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The Montreal Canadiens are a professional ice hockey team based in Montreal, Quebec. They are members of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League, the clubs official name is le Club de hockey Canadien. The team is referred to in English and French as the Habs. French nicknames for the team include Les Canadiens,

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Game between the Canadiens and the New York Rangers in 1962.

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Montreal Canadiens Canadiens de Montréal

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The Bell Centre has been the Canadiens' home stadium since 1996. The arena is here seen in 2008, with banners celebrating the Montreal Canadiens centennial.

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Maurice 'The Rocket' Richard is the Canadiens' all-time leader in goals. The trophy awarded annually to the NHL's leading goal scorer is named in honour of Richard.

New York Rangers
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The New York Rangers are a professional ice hockey team based in New York City. They are members of the Metropolitan Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League, the team plays its home games at Madison Square Garden, located in the borough of Manhattan. The Rangers are one of three NHL franchises in the New York metropolitan a

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Tex Rickard founded the Rangers in 1926.

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New York Rangers

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Wayne Gretzky as a Ranger in 1997

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Baseball

List of NHL seasons
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This is a list of seasons of the National Hockey League, a professional ice hockey league, since its inception in 1917. The list also includes the seasons of the National Hockey Association, the organization of the NHL. Only two franchises, Montreal and Toronto, still exist from the founding of the league, the Quebec Bulldogs, which suspended after

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The Montreal Canadiens host the Toronto Maple Leafs in 1938

Ottawa Senators (original)
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The Ottawa Senators were a professional, ice hockey team based in Ottawa, Canada which existed from 1883 to 1954. The club was the first hockey club in Ontario, a member of the National Hockey League. The club, which was officially the Ottawa Hockey Club, was known by nicknames, including the Generals in the 1890s, the Silver Seven from 1903 to 190

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The 1901 club, CAHL (left trophy) and Ottawa (right shield) champions. The club wore the same 'O' logo as the Ottawa Football Club that season.

Philadelphia Quakers (NHL)
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The Philadelphia Quakers were an American professional ice hockey team that played only one full season in the National Hockey League, 1930–31, at the Philadelphia Arena in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. They were the successors of the Pittsburgh Pirates, the Pirates, the third American-based NHL team, got off to a promising start in 1925–26, making t

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Phila. Quakers program

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Philadelphia Quakers

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1930-31 Philadelphia Quakers

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Quakers jersey in the Hockey Hall of Fame.

Stanley Cup
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The Stanley Cup is the championship trophy awarded annually to the National Hockey League playoff winner. The first Cup was awarded in 1893 to Montreal HC, and subsequent winners from 1893 to 1914 were determined by challenge games, Professional teams first became eligible to challenge for the Stanley Cup in 1906. After a series of mergers and fold

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Stanley Cup

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The first Stanley Cup Champions: The Montreal Hockey Club (affiliated with the Montreal Amateur Athletic Association)

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The Lord Stanley of Preston

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The first Stanley Cup

Chicago Stadium
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Chicago Stadium was an indoor arena located in Chicago. It opened in 1929, and closed in 1994, the Stadium hosted the Chicago Blackhawks of the NHL from 1929–1994 and the Chicago Bulls of the NBA from 1967–1994. The stadium was first proposed by Chicago sports promoter Paddy Harmon, Harmon wanted to bring an NHL team to Chicago, but he lost out to

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The interior of Chicago Stadium in 1930

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Chicago Stadium

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Chicago Stadium at Night, 1950 Curteich Linen Postcard

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Detail of console of the huge Barton pipe organ originally installed in the Chicago Stadium. The massive console boasted six manuals (keyboards) and over 800 stops, with thousands of pipes and percussions installed in the center ceiling high above center court.

Chicago Blackhawks
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The Chicago Blackhawks are a professional ice hockey team based in Chicago, Illinois. They are members of the Central Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League and they have won six Stanley Cup championships since their founding in 1926. The Blackhawks are one of the Original Six NHL teams along with the Detroit Red Wings, Mo

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Ron Murphy and Eric Nesterenko battle in front of the Toronto net

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Chicago Blackhawks

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The United Center in 2006.

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Jonathan Toews, at age 20, became the third youngest captain in team history in 2008.

Detroit Falcons (hockey)
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The Detroit Red Wings are a professional ice hockey team based in Detroit, Michigan. They are members of the Atlantic Division in the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League and are one of the Original Six teams of the league, founded in 1926, the team was known as the Detroit Cougars from then until 1930. For the 1930–31 and 1931–32 seaso

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Interior of the Joe Louis Arena, where the Red Wings have played at home since 1979, when they left the Detroit Olympia.

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Detroit Red Wings

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Red Wings McDonnell Douglas DC-9-51 in 2002

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Nicklas Lidstrom, the former captain of the Wings

Frank Calder
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Frank Sellick Calder was an ice hockey executive, a journalist and athlete. He is most notable for serving as the first president of the National Hockey League from 1917 until his death in 1943. He was the last president of the NHLs predecessor league, the National Hockey Association and was instrumental in the transition from the NHA to the NHL, a

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Frank Calder

Maple Leaf Gardens
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Maple Leaf Gardens is a historic building located at the northwest corner of Carlton Street and Church Street in Toronto, Canada. The building was constructed as an arena to host ice hockey games. Considered one of the cathedrals of ice hockey, it was home to the Toronto Maple Leafs of the National Hockey League from 1931 to 1999, the Leafs won the

Conn Smythe
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Constantine Falkland Cary Smythe, MC was a Canadian businessman, soldier and sportsman in ice hockey and horse racing. He is best known as the owner of the Toronto Maple Leafs of the National Hockey League from 1927 to 1961. As owner of the Leafs during numerous championship years, his appears on the Stanley Cup eight times,1932,1942,1945,1947,1948

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Conn Smythe

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Original Maple Leaf Gardens architectural depiction

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Smythe (far left) enlisting in the Second World War

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Conn Smythe Trophy in shape of Maple Leaf Gardens

Frank Selke
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Francis Joseph Aloysius Frank Selke was a Canadian hockey manager in the National Hockey League. He was a nine-time Stanley Cup champion with the Toronto Maple Leafs and Montreal Canadiens, born in Berlin, Ontario, Selke was managing the Iroquois Bantams in his hometown at the age of 14. He coached the Berlin Union Jacks junior team in the Ontario

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Selke watching Elmer Lach sign his first contract, 1942

Chicago Black Hawks
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The Chicago Blackhawks are a professional ice hockey team based in Chicago, Illinois. They are members of the Central Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League and they have won six Stanley Cup championships since their founding in 1926. The Blackhawks are one of the Original Six NHL teams along with the Detroit Red Wings, Mo

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Ron Murphy and Eric Nesterenko battle in front of the Toronto net

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Chicago Blackhawks

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The United Center in 2006.

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Jonathan Toews, at age 20, became the third youngest captain in team history in 2008.

Eddie Shore
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On January 1,2017, in a ceremony prior to the Centennial Classic, Shore was part of the first group of players to be named one of the 100 Greatest NHL Players in history. Shore won the Hart Trophy as the NHLs most valuable player four times, a bruiser known for his violence, Shore set a then-NHL record for 165 penalty minutes in his second season.

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Shore with the Bruins, 1939.

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Shore with the Melville Millionaires.

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Ace Bailey (left) shakes the hand of Eddie Shore at the benefit All-Star Game held in honour of Bailey.

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Eddie Shore in Springfield.

James Strachan (ice hockey)
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James F. Strachan was a Canadian ice hockey executive and businessman. He was an owner or part-owner with Montreal, Quebec, Canada teams, Strachan was owner and president of the Montreal Wanderers from 1904 to 1909 during which the Wanderers won 3 of their 4 Stanley Cups in 1906,1907 and 1908. In 1908–09, he served as their head coach. He sold the

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James Strachan in 1908

Detroit Red Wings
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The Detroit Red Wings are a professional ice hockey team based in Detroit, Michigan. They are members of the Atlantic Division in the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League and are one of the Original Six teams of the league, founded in 1926, the team was known as the Detroit Cougars from then until 1930. For the 1930–31 and 1931–32 seaso

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Interior of the Joe Louis Arena, where the Red Wings have played at home since 1979, when they left the Detroit Olympia.

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Detroit Red Wings

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Red Wings McDonnell Douglas DC-9-51 in 2002

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Nicklas Lidstrom, the former captain of the Wings

Boston Bruins
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The Boston Bruins are a professional ice hockey team based in Boston, Massachusetts. They are members of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League, the team has been in existence since 1924, and is the leagues third-oldest team and is the oldest in the United States. It is also an Original Six franchise, along wi

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Defenseman Eddie Shore was the team's first great star, making his debut in 1926.

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Boston Bruins

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Orr is tripped and flies through the air after scoring "The Goal" in overtime to win the 1970 Stanley Cup Finals. The image is widely considered to be one of the most famous in hockey history.

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Ray Bourque, shown in 1981 and before switching to his familiar No. 77, led the Bruins to two Stanley Cup Finals appearances in 1988 and 1990.

New York Americans
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The New York Americans, colloquially known as the Amerks, were a professional ice hockey team based in New York City, New York from 1925 to 1942. They were the expansion team in the history of the National Hockey League. The team never won the Stanley Cup, but reached the semifinals twice. While it was the first team in New York City, it was eclips

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The 1925-26 New York Americans

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New York Americans

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Team jersey, Hockey Hall of Fame

Aurel Joliat
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Aurèle Émile Mighty Atom, Little Giant Joliat was a Canadian professional ice hockey left winger who played 16 seasons in the National Hockey League for the Montreal Canadiens. Joliat began his hockey career in 1916, playing for several Canadian amateur teams in Ottawa and Iroquois Falls. In 1922, however, Joliat was awarded to the Montreal Canadie

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Aurèle Joliat

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Joliat won the Hart Trophy in 1934.

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Joliat received this replica Hart Memorial Trophy

Chuck Gardiner (ice hockey)
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Charles Robert Chuck Gardiner was a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender who played for the Chicago Black Hawks in the National Hockey League. Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, Gardiner moved with his family to Canada as a child, playing all of his junior hockey in or around Winnipeg, Manitoba, Gardiner joined the Chicago Black Hawks in the 1927–

Charlie Gardiner (ice hockey)
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Charles Robert Chuck Gardiner was a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender who played for the Chicago Black Hawks in the National Hockey League. Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, Gardiner moved with his family to Canada as a child, playing all of his junior hockey in or around Winnipeg, Manitoba, Gardiner joined the Chicago Black Hawks in the 1927–

Lorne Chabot
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Lorne Chabotsky Chabot was a Canadian professional ice hockey player. Chabot played in the National Hockey League from 1926 to 1937 and he was a member of two Stanley Cup championship teams, the New York Rangers in 1928, and the Toronto Maple Leafs in 1932. Chabot played for the New York Rangers, Toronto Maple Leafs, Montreal Canadiens, Chicago Bla

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Lorne Chabot

Charlie Conacher
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An early power forward, Conacher was nicknamed The Big Bomber, for his size, powerful shot and goal scoring. He led the NHL five times in goals, and twice led in overall scoring, over five seasons from 1931-32 to 1935-36 Conacher was named to three NHL First All-Star Teams and two NHL Second All-Star Teams. He is an Honoured Member of the Hockey Ha

Detroit Falcons (NHL)
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The Detroit Red Wings are a professional ice hockey team based in Detroit, Michigan. They are members of the Atlantic Division in the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League and are one of the Original Six teams of the league, founded in 1926, the team was known as the Detroit Cougars from then until 1930. For the 1930–31 and 1931–32 seaso

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Interior of the Joe Louis Arena, where the Red Wings have played at home since 1979, when they left the Detroit Olympia.

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Detroit Red Wings

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Red Wings McDonnell Douglas DC-9-51 in 2002

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Nicklas Lidstrom, the former captain of the Wings

Olympia Stadium
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The Detroit Olympia was an indoor arena that stood at 5920 Grand River Avenue in Detroit from 1927 until 1987. It was best known as the home of the Detroit Red Wings hockey team of the National Hockey League from its opening until 1979, in July 1926, the Detroit Hockey Club unveiled drawings for the Olympia arena to be built on the site. The corner

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Clockwise, from top: Midtown Manhattan, Times Square, the Unisphere in Queens, the Brooklyn Bridge, Lower Manhattan with One World Trade Center, Central Park, the headquarters of the United Nations, and the Statue of Liberty

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New Amsterdam, centered in the eventual Lower Manhattan, in 1664, the year England took control and renamed it "New York".

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The Battle of Long Island, the largest battle of the American Revolution, took place in Brooklyn in 1776.

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Broadway follows the Native American Wickquasgeck Trail through Manhattan.

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From top to bottom, left to right: the Boston skyline viewed from the Bunker Hill Monument; the Museum of Fine Arts; Faneuil Hall; Massachusetts State House; The First Church of Christ, Scientist; Boston Public Library; the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum; South Station; Boston University and the Charles River; Arnold Arboretum; Fenway Park; and the Boston Common

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From top left: Downtown Toronto featuring the CN Tower and Financial District from the Toronto Harbour, City Hall, the Ontario Legislative Building, Casa Loma, Prince Edward Viaduct, and the Scarborough Bluffs